that's all changing now. >> in june the department of interior leadership changed his job. >> as many as 50 senior the associate deputy secretary m saying, you've been reassigned. >> clemens' new gig was in auditing. >> i had no auditing experience. to take the climate change guy and put him in the office that collects oil and gas and mining revenues was a very explicit signal that they wanted me to quit. >> the president's interior secretary, ryan zinke, wants to cut roughly 4,000 jobs from his department. in june he told lawmakers one way he planned to do it was through reassignments. >> reassignments don't trim the workforce, right? only if you get them to quit does it trim the workforce. >> you can't be moving talent around, the senior executive office around, in order to get rid of them. that would not be permit. >> by october clement did what he said the administration wants him to do, he quit.